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Excavations and restorations at ancient Stageira in 1997

• Σισμανίδης, Κώστας Λ.

Our activities at Stageira had two main objectives in 1997, excavation andrestoration. The excavations were confined to three points on the north hill andproduced the following findings.i) Precisely to the south of the top of the hill and just outside the enceinte of theByzantine castle here, a number of stone walls were uncovered, most of thembelonging to a house of the Early Hellenistic period. The walls of two rooms on thenorth side of the house survive, the rest are ruined.ii) A little further south, in the area of the Byzantine fortification, another fourmetrestretch of the outer face of the Archaic city wall, located last year, wasuncovered. It will be recalled that the Byzantine fortification was built precisely ontop of this wall.iii) At the north-easternmost point of the north hill, immediately to the west ofthe Archaic sanctuaries, on a large plateau between the sanctuaries and the LateClassical wall, we investigated the remains of an Archaic building measuring approximately10x15 m. Although it seems to have been demolished around the midfourthcentury BC, the ground plan is readable: five large rectangular rooms aroundthree sides of a small, probably open, courtyard at the south.Moving on now to the consolidation and restoration work done this year, it hasalready begun in three different places on the archaeological site.1) In the portico in the agora, the development and restoration work has madeconsiderable progress, but is not yet complete.2) In the citadel on top of the south hill, all the walls have been consolidatedand the external square tower on the east enceinte has been restored.3) The most important and extensive restorations have been carried out on thesouth Classical wall, more specifically in the section between the top of the southhill and the dirt road to the east, a total length of some 200 m. In this stretch of thefortification, where there are two large towers (one round and one square), therestorations proper are already complete. Some supplementary development workremains to be done for the architectural survey to be fully implemented.

• History and Archaeology

• Ανασκαφές (Αρχαιολογία)

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